POP3 – Climate Conference
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Future Yard is proud to host our latest annual climate conference. POP3 powered by Ecotricity Business is a day of debate, conversation and collaboration, exploring the power of culture in the quest for climate justice.
With panels featuring industry experts, interactive roundtable discussions and opportunities to connect with leading figures from across the UK, POP3 is the sustainability conference for the grassroots and community culture sector.
Coinciding with the UN-convened COP Climate Conference, this interactive day will see venue owners, business leaders, creatives, academics and sector professionals collaborate through workshops and panels to help shape a greener future for our industry. People in attendance will range from nationally significant arts organisations and major players in the green transition, to local artists and businesses passionate about sustainability.
Sustainability is at the heart of Future Yard’s mission. This is the third such event we have held, alongside the publication of our own Sustainability Roadmap. In 2024, we announced our intention to achieve operational net zero by 2030 and net zero by 2035. At this year’s event, we will be updating our Roadmap to outline how we intend to achieve this.
The daytime conference runs between 11am and 6pm, and takes place in Future Yard’s Live Room and workshop spaces. Delegate and audience tickets are now available.
The conference will be followed by an evening live show headlined by Anna B Savage. Doors for this event open at 8pm, tickets available separately.
POP3 Programme
Keynote address by musician and activist Luke Wallace
A Gamified Sustainability Workshop by Imagine Futures
Venues As Centres For Inspiration And Positive Change, with Earthsonic
Energy. Transport. Food. The Biggest Emitters And How To Mitigate Them, with Ecotricity
Re-Imagining The Future Of The Merseyside Coast, with National Oceanographic Centre
Takkuuk – A film presented by Earthsonic and Bicep
Afterparty headline show by Anna B Savage
And much still more to be announced
POWERED BY ECOTRICITY BUSINESS
POP3 is sponsored by our new Sustainability Partner, Ecotricity – Britain’s Greenest Energy Company.
Ecotricity is Britain’s Greenest Energy Company, whose mission is to fight climate change, to remove fossil fuel natural gas from the grid and replace it with green gas, with a wider vision for a zero carbon Britain.
As part of this partnership, Ecotricity will take part in panel sessions and share the company’s knowhow from three decades at the forefront of the global climate movement.
ANNA B SAVAGE
Anna B Savage is an Irish-based songwriter originally from London, who specialises in stark and mood-laden tales.
A sense of rootedness is at the heart of Savage’s third record You and i are Earth (City Slang), a record that is as much about healing as it is an unbowed sense of curiosity, and, more simply, “a love letter to a man and to Ireland.” Savage’s connection to Ireland goes back a decade, and she has spent most of that time on the West Coast since then, dipping back to her home in County Donegal in between bouts of touring – this year supporting The Staves and St Vincent. Savage also worked with musicians from Lankum and Crash Ensemble on her latest LP.
SUSTAINABILITY ROADMAP
POP3 will also see the launch of Future Yard’s updated Sustainability Roadmap, documenting our journey over the past 12 months, and building on our ambitious plans to reach operational net zero by 2030.
Originally produced in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University, Future Yard’s Sustainability Roadmap has been conceived as an open resource for other music venues and creative spaces. Society’s response to the climate emergency must be collaborative and this is our opportunity to share our ideas and actions with the wider music and creative community.
Read previous published versions of our Roadmap here: 2022 | 2024
Future Yard presents
POP3 – A Climate Conference, powered by Ecotricity Business
Thursday 20th November 2024
75 Argyle Street
Daytime conference | Doors 11am – Event finishes at 6pm
Delegate Ticket £25 | For industry professionals and businesses
Audience Ticket FREE | For those with an interest in sustainability and the climate [please still claim a ticket in advance]
Anna B Savage headline show | Doors open at 8pm, show finishes by 11pm. Standing. Tickets available separately (£15 + booking fee).
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Future Yard is a cashless venue – all payments are taken by contactless or chip and pin. Kitchen open throughout the day.
If you have any specific access requests, please read all of the details about accessibility at Future Yard here.